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Frazer, Michael 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-3647
(2017)
Interdisciplinary before the disciplines: moral sentimentalism and the new science of man.
In:
Ethical Sentimentalism.
Cambridge University Press, pp. 15-31.
ISBN 9781107089617
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Abstract
This chapter argues that Enlightenment sentimentalism’s greatest potential contribution to scholarship today is not a matter for moral philosophy alone, but rather an agenda for fruitful collaboration between fields across the humanities and social sciences. This interdisciplinary program for both understanding an improving human nature is contrasted with alternative approaches, and defended against objections that it cannot produce a moral code categorically binding on any rational being as such. The chapter concludes with some sociological and psychological hypotheses that might help explain why the interdisciplinary and sentimentalist approach to ethics, for all its intellectual virtues, has not been adequately appreciated.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2017 05:09 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2023 05:51 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63712 |
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